Recently fixed Plex Media vulnerabilities are being exploited to install malware
A researcher says attacks chaining 4 vulnerabilities is hacking unpatched boxes.
What happens when an AI interviewer meets AI interviewee? YouTuber stands up for those facing faceless hiring processes
A YouTube comedian has set up a job interview between himself and an AI interviewer, and sent an AI avatar along in his place.
Why Elon Musk, Anthropic and other AI titans are giving away shares
Gifts of stock can help with public relations and offer financial advantages to wealthy individuals.
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
France Imposes Curfews in Parts of Paris and Other Cities After Nationwide Rioting
The interior minister acknowledged that the police were underprepared for the scale of the riots. But Prime Minister SĂ©bastien Lecornu defended their efforts and pledged to restore order.
Ex-OpenAI engineer who allegedly planted bug in office was in contact with Saudi royal family
A former OpenAI engineer who allegedly installed a listening device in an executive conference room was in close contact with a member of the Saudi royal family and was planning to leave the U.S. for Riyadh when authorities arrested him, federal prosecutors said Sunday in a court memorandum. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more.
Elon Musk pledges to give a SpaceX share to every U.S. child
The SpaceX CEO wrote on social media on Monday that the gift "will be the first of many."
Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization
When our AI code reviewer's cost per run doubled, we dug into the token usage to find out why. Learn how we used prompt caching and intelligent model routing to slash our inference bill by 68% while speeding up reviews.
Election Offices in at Least 32 States Have Received Suspicious Letters
WIRED contacted officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC, to uncover the extent of a harassment campaign ahead of the midterms.
Ex-OpenAI worker who allegedly planted bug contacted Saudi royal
The wife and infant son of the ex-OpenAI engineer left the U.S. for Saudi Arabia in October with business-class tickets purchased by a Saudi military official, prosecutors allege.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)
Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became something you can provision from inside the […]
The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be hardest to stop
The time to prepare for "gradual disempowerment" is now, according to researchers. One calls it "a civilization-scale problem."